Re: Simple header cleanups

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thursday 27 April 2006 10:49, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> We _do_ have a stable userspace ABI and API, and contrary to the popular
> belief the header set would be quite small (probably an order of magnitude
> smaller than the "sanitized headers" package). What we need to export is
> the actual API (including things like ioctl, netlink, SG_IO etc), most
> things should be kept private to the kernel (and never copied anywhere
> etc).

Yes, that is also what the 'make headers_install' target in David's tree
does (not the one proposed for inclusion here). It installs only headers
that are meaningful to glibc and the few other traditional users and strips
out the parts that are not inside __KERNEL__.

	Arnd <><
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